Jessica Sleeth

An extraordinarily bright light has gone out. May we all strive to be better in her memory 💔

A handful of guys asserting the right to pillage all human knowledge and creative labor to sell it back to people they've convinced not to value human knowledge and creative labor in order to amass personal wealth and power is not only gross, it's profoundly uninteresting.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

This ICE flight believed to be carrying Afghan, Syrian and Iranian asylum seekers to the Central African Republic is underway. Omni Air International, may you rot in infamy and shame.

My eyeballs got a serious workout, but I’m proud (?) of this score (if one can be proud of the ability to differentiate colors lol). What's My JND? 0.0016 Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

I'm done mourning my comforting, childish hopes for what this country might be, and I'm ready to accept who, what, and where we really are Now there can only be grim determination for whatever must be done to once again reach a place where we can afford hopeful, flattering thoughts of ourselves.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

Jesus Christ. Just horrific levels of crimes against humanity happening every day in Gaza. Our country keeps supplying weaponry to the perpetrators of this atrocity, which makes us equally culpable. May all those involved never know peace.

"The nation’s forecasting agency is in tatters as what could be a destructive hurricane season nears. Several current and former agency meteorologists told CNN they are concerned forecasts and life-saving warnings are not going to be issued in time." www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

This is the most backward, irredeemable administration of evil fuckwits… your standard dystopian fiction could never. This plot would have been deemed too heavy-handed and juvenile by even the most cut-rate publisher.

A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman. I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.

“Democrats need to decide whether they want to fight for the things they believe in, or spend the rest of their days chasing polls but never catching them.” Hell yes, @notalawyer.bsky.social excellent newsletter today!

If I worked at a newspaper, I’d ask why we have to keep coming up with novel phrases like “mass detention camp” to describe Trump’s plans instead of using a more familiar term.

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

Women-

the death penalty is one of the most evil things in this country. it must be abolished and it is a deep, horrible nauseating rot on the fabric of all that we should hold dear that it still exists.

I feel like the Harris/Walz vibe of "radical joy" is a great contrast both to the GOP's "angry weirdness" and the Dems' usual strategy of "feckless despair"

I know, and the #couch thing *is* priceless. But let’s not forget the other important news today— newrepublic.com/post/184192/...

The central joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a race of dipshits building a planet-sized computer to answer the question of "life, the universe, and everything" and then a million years later it says the answer is 42, and somehow that has taken on a William Gibson level of prescience

I see this happening all over Charlottesville, nowadays: from the failed Champion Hosp. Group, to owners of various international cuisine restaurants opening multiple locations under different names. This article has interesting things to say about the flattening of food scenes due to this concept.

you don't have to be a moral philosopher to wade through the complexities of these issues. but I happen to be one, so for whatever that's worth: the question of where to stand on genocide is life pitching at you underhand. moral life will never be easier than this. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/s...

They’ll do it in Ramallah, they’ll do it in Gaza, they’ll do it in Ferguson, they’ll do it in the Ivy League, they’ll do it in the offices of Google. Sooner or later they’ll get to your house and mine. No one is free.

God, this is so right and so depressing. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/college-is...

“This is not a normal war. The war in Ukraine has killed 500 kids in two years and the war in Gaza has killed over 10,000 in less than five months. We have seen wars before but this is something that is a dark stain on our shared humanity.”

@swordsjew.bsky.social I'm sorry, I know it's an imposition, but your thoughts about where we should get our news now made me think, I wrote a survey trying to get an idea of where people get news, I would love to hear from your followers for a larger sample. teamtrash.substack.com/p/where-do-y...

I see we’re back on the generational discourse again.

“Please lay down and be genteel while we systematically strip you of your rights and line the route to the end of our democracy with pleasantries”.

Really kind of soul-deadening how evergreen this sort of post has proved to be

Finally managed to gain access to Bluesky. Here’s hoping the air is nicer up here.